Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Hawthorne in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 17 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada (11 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00882969. Unique identifier: nn00882969. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 05:23:29 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.5466° West, latitude 38.6739° North, depth = 9.1 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/08/24 / 2024-08-25 05:23:29 / August 25, 2024 @ 5:23 am.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.5466° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.6739° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-25 05:23:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-25 05:26:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	138	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nn	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3872 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84.14	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nn00882969	Id of event.
Event Code	00882969	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00882969,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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